SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 43 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +38
Contract jobs citing SAP 87 80 88
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.30% 4.43% 3.74%
As % of the Vendors category 9.48% 10.18% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 42 65
10th Percentile £413 £400 £420
25th Percentile £503 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -3.26% +4.55%
75th Percentile £703 £625 £713
90th Percentile £770 £840 £838
Central London median daily rate £588 £550 £542
% change year-on-year +6.82% +1.57% -1.55%

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 918 786 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 45.40% 43.52% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 500 726
10th Percentile £353 £313 £305
25th Percentile £425 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile - £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £41.25 £15.94
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% +489.47% -8.23%
75th Percentile £37.76 - £23.75
90th Percentile £42.50 £157.30 £31.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -9.52%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the City of London region over the 6 months to 9 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge +1 1 - -
SAP
Central London

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 35 (40.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (8.05%) SAP EWM
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (3.45%) SAP PM
3 3 (3.45%) SAP PP
3 3 (3.45%) SAP QM
4 2 (2.30%) NetSuite
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.30%) SAP CO
4 2 (2.30%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.30%) SAP FI
4 2 (2.30%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (2.30%) SAP MM
4 2 (2.30%) SAP Retail
4 2 (2.30%) SAP WM
5 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.15%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (1.15%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (1.15%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.20%) SuccessFactors
2 6 (6.90%) Azure
3 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.60%) AWS
5 3 (3.45%) OCI
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.30%) Boomi
6 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.30%) GCP
6 2 (2.30%) SaaS
6 2 (2.30%) Serverless
6 2 (2.30%) Textract
7 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.15%) GitHub
7 1 (1.15%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.15%) IaaS
7 1 (1.15%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.60%) Power BI
3 3 (3.45%) Metadata
4 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.30%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.30%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.30%) Tableau
5 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.15%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.15%) Looker
5 1 (1.15%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.15%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.15%) Postman
2 1 (1.15%) Selenium
2 1 (1.15%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.15%) TestRail
2 1 (1.15%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (35.63%) Finance
2 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Banking
4 6 (6.90%) Billing
4 6 (6.90%) Legal
5 5 (5.75%) Law
6 4 (4.60%) Retail
7 3 (3.45%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.30%) Marketing
8 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Back Office
9 1 (1.15%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 18 (20.69%) Consultant
2 17 (19.54%) Architect
3 15 (17.24%) SAP Consultant
4 13 (14.94%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (10.34%) Project Manager
6 8 (9.20%) SAP Architect
7 7 (8.05%) Lead
7 7 (8.05%) Senior
8 6 (6.90%) Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) Functional Consultant
8 6 (6.90%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 5 (5.75%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.75%) SAP Manager
9 5 (5.75%) SAP Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) SAP Project Manager
11 3 (3.45%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
11 3 (3.45%) SAP Business Analyst
11 3 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
11 3 (3.45%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Middleware
2 3 (3.45%) IDoc
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.45%) XML
3 2 (2.30%) boto
3 2 (2.30%) EDI
3 2 (2.30%) HTML
3 2 (2.30%) NumPy
3 2 (2.30%) Pandas
3 2 (2.30%) REST
3 2 (2.30%) SAP ALE
3 2 (2.30%) SAP Basis
3 2 (2.30%) Web Services
4 1 (1.15%) .NET
4 1 (1.15%) BAPI
4 1 (1.15%) JSON
4 1 (1.15%) LDAP
4 1 (1.15%) SAP TM
4 1 (1.15%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.75%) FMCG
3 4 (4.60%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.45%) Life Science
4 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.15%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) IPTV
6 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.15%) New Media
6 1 (1.15%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (26.44%) Migration
2 22 (25.29%) ERP
3 15 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (16.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (12.64%) Data Migration
5 11 (12.64%) Roadmaps
6 9 (10.34%) ETL
6 9 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (9.20%) Project Management
7 8 (9.20%) Technology Roadmap
7 8 (9.20%) Validation
8 7 (8.05%) Agile
8 7 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (8.05%) Project Delivery
9 6 (6.90%) AI
9 6 (6.90%) Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (5.75%) Scenario Testing
10 5 (5.75%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.49%) SQL
2 4 (4.60%) Python
3 3 (3.45%) ABAP
4 2 (2.30%) C#
5 1 (1.15%) C++
5 1 (1.15%) Java
5 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.15%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (6.90%) Degree
2 5 (5.75%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.45%) PMP
4 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) ACCA
5 1 (1.15%) PhD
5 1 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.75%) QA
3 4 (4.60%) GAAP
4 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) IFRS
5 1 (1.15%) Basel III
5 1 (1.15%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.15%) PMO
5 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.15%) SLA
5 1 (1.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Oracle
2 9 (10.34%) Workday
3 8 (9.20%) Ariba
4 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.60%) Informatica
5 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.30%) Databricks
7 1 (1.15%) Concur
7 1 (1.15%) ESRI
7 1 (1.15%) Google
7 1 (1.15%) IBM
7 1 (1.15%) IFS
7 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.15%) OpenText
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Talend